Dr. Bellingham completed his medical school and anesthesiology residency at Western University. He followed this with a fellowship in Chronic Pain Management at the University of Toronto with a focus on interventional pain management using fluoroscopy and ultrasound guided techniques. Dr. Bellingham returned to Western University to work in the Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine in his capacity as an anesthetist and as a chronic pain specialist.

Dr. Bellingham has assisted in the transition of the Western Pain Clinic to a newly renovated space with a dedicated fluoroscopy suite and procedure room for ultrasound guided interventions. There, he provides a combination of pharmacotherapeutic as well as interventional strategies for the management of chronic non-malignant pain.

He is currently the Director of the Chronic Pain Fellowship Program at Western University. Since the recognition of Pain Medicine as an official subspecialty by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, Dr. Bellingham has began to plan the transition of the fellowship program to the new Pain Medicine Residency format. Further educational undertakings in Pain Medicine include frequent participation in workshops dedicated to the teaching of ultrasound guided interventions for pain management.

Dr. Bellingham's current research interests include

• Microvascular abnormalities in Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Type 1 using Near Infrared Spectroscopy
• Ultrasound guided interventions in Chronic Pain Medicine